Well, I have not given anything about the upcoming version of Powervortex except an early logo I threw together in a brief fit of graphic design inspiration. I’ll give a bit more today. Here is the working (and possibly final) color scheme for the main site:

With the tentative design I am working on, there may not be a seasonal series like there was with Haiku that is in use now. More likely, there will be one flavor for the main site, one for the blog, and one for the gallery. With the design, this is doable, even with color variations. I am planning for the main site to have the above dark-green style, the blog to be blue, and the gallery to be (again) red. Otherwise, the new design will be slick, bold, and completely not modest the way the Haiku series is.

Functionality wise, the theme will be more free-form (no more control-freak tables like now…*cough contact form *cough) and there will be a lot more Web 2.0 stuff like AJAX. I am planning to implement K2 for the blog.

Well, thats it for now. I hope to produce a screenshot of the new look next time.

~DC

I am excited to announce that Powervortex:gallery, which is proudly powered by the gallery application ZenPhoto, has been featured in the ZenPhoto Showcase. The Showcase “is a selection of sites that make exceptional creative use of ZenPhoto either as a pure installation or in combination with others systems like Wordpress.” I am greatly honored that my website has been given such recognition and I would like to thank the ZenPhoto team for inducting my site into their Showcase and for developing such an excellent product.

ZenPhoto is a lightweight, efficient, Web 2.0-grade gallery software that is not only easy to use but also highly flexible to customize. It is a great gallery program for those of you trying to finding something to integrate with your blog that is not bloated like Gallery2. In any event, it is an excellent gallery script that truly “does have everything you need for your online gallery.”

~DC

Apparently there will be a new administrator control panel design with the next version of the blog software, Wordpress version 2.4. While this looks nice and is a good change from the current style (which I have tried to replace with modifications such as SpotMilk), this new style is still under heavy construction by the WP team. While it does not resemble the concepts of the Shuttle Project that announced to replace the WP-admin style, I still look forward to seeing the completed new style and the new features of Wordpress 2.4. Once again, great job Wordpress team.

~DC

Coming 2008.